Evergreen Hospital in the US discovers it can reduce its costs and medication
errors by using a robotic pharmacist. The robot dispenses 93% of their drugs:
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/22/biz/news02.txt
A consortium based in Taiwan prepares yet another SD Card variant called M
1/4-card, using a USB bus to increase throughput:
http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=57703239
The US Deparment of Fatherland Security steps in to prevent the sale of IBM's
PC business to a Chinese company as it fears the employees may spy on the US:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1753912,00.asp
Texas Instruments manages to get most of the functionality of a cellphone onto a
single chip, opening the door for low-cost (US$25) cellphones:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020354,39185441,00.htm
Swedish GSM operator TeliaSonera to increase the speed of its network using EDGE
to 210kbps and extend coverage to 90% of the land area:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/TeliaSonera_Sweden_introduces_major_improvements
Now is the time to sit up and pay attention to Cell processors. They're big,
they're powerful, they're fast and they're coming your way in huge quantities:
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html
The latest video card design has dual-link DVI, 2048x2048 resolution, 128MB RAM,
OpenGL, MPEG, 1.6 Gigapixels/s bandwidth, and an Open Source hardware licence:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4622
And finally. Kiwi ingenuity figures out a way to make bone replacements; using
keratin as found in NZ wool to build an absorbable and sound 'bog' for bones:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3164526a13,00.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.